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CQA Challenge

CQA Challenge History

2020 Results

First ever CQA Challenge with a "tie" in 2nd Place:

First Place - UCSD

Team Captain - Aparimit Phophalia

Hongao Qiu

Shan Zhang

Chengxi Song

Yuchen Chen

Second Place - Washington University in St. Louis

Team Captain - Yiton Cai

Jingqiu Zhao

Weihao Zhou

Aurora Liu

Miao He

Jie Cheng

Yiming Huang

Xinyuan Hu

Second Place - Union College

Team Captain - Jarrod Trief

Henry Scott

Rob Harrington

Ross Kesselman

Seif Refat

Patrick Aung

Third Place - USCD (Team 2)

Team Captain - Yu Jiang

Yuanyuan Yang

Yue Wang

Steve Ting

Anxum Wei

Top 3 Finishes:

Vanderbilt - 2013 (Winner), 2014, 2018

IIT - 2015 (Winner), 2016 (Winner)

University of Arizona - 2014, 2017 (Winner)

University of Southern California - 2014 (Winner), 2016

University of Colorado 2018 (Winner)

Notre Dame 2018

Marquette 2017

Washington University 2017

RPI 2016

Rice 2015

University of Washington 2015

Williams 2013

Chinese University of Hong Kong 2013

2019 TOP 3

First Place - University of Colorado

Mentor- Trent Ambler

Sponsor- Roberto Caccia

Students- Harrison Pearl, William Sun, John Palmer

Runner Up - Vanderbilt (Team 1)

Mentor- Bola Olusanya

Sponsor- Robert Whaley

Students- Nicholas Egli, Carson Riley, Bridgett Ledak, Brian Reed, Lee Smith, Trevor Brown

2nd Runner Up - Notre Dame (Gold)

Mentor- Eric Fritz

Sponsor- Kevin Burke

Students- Sarah Graney, Lan Zhou, Arianna Deshpande, Ben Shepard, Noel Vincent

2018 Top Rankings

1 Colorado Alpha Squad

2 Vanderbilt 1

3 University of Notre Dame Gold

4 Rensselaer 2

5 Colorado

6 University of Notre Dame-Blue

7 Hawks IIT Team A

8 Duke

9 UIC Dragon

10 Michigan

11 Temple

12 UIC

13 Purdue #2

14 Stevens Institute of Technology

15 Marquette

16 University of Pittsburgh

17 Wilkes

18 Georgia Tech

19 Rensselaer 1

20 Arizona

21 Syracuse 1

22 Sapienza University of Rome 3

23 Carnegie Mellon MBA Team

24 CalTech

25 UW-Milwaukee

26 Saint Joseph's University

27 India School of Business Hyderabad Campus

28 India School of Business, #2 Mohali Campus

29 Vanderbilt 2

30 Rice

31 Syracuse 2

32 USC

33 Wesleyan

34 Villanova

35 IE Business School

36 Purdue #1

37 IIT #2

38 UW-Milwaukee 2

39 Chinese University

40 Sapienza University of Rome 1

41 Metropolitan College of NY

42 Cal Poly

43 Rutgers

44 Union College

45 York

46 Santa Clara

47 Sapienza University of Rome 2

2017 Results

First Place - University of Arizona

Mentor- Chris Campisano

Sponsor- Scott Cederburg

Students- Spencer Bateman, Hilla Hascalovici, Charles Recchion, Edward Recchion, Kham To

Runner Up - Marquette University Team 2:

Mentor- Tom Anichini

Sponsor- Bill Walker

Students- William Reckamp, James Hannack, Jordan Luczaj, Jack Gorski, Connor Konicke

2nd Runner Up - Washington University Green Team

Mentor- Kirk McDonald

Sponsor- Rich Ryffel

Students- Sahil Ghurye, Chongyu Li, Siyong Chen, Yuanfang Liu, Yuming Lou, Yingan Yi

2017 Final Team Rankings:

1 University of Arizona

2 Marquette (2)

3 Wash U STL (Green)

4 Notre Dame (Blue)

5 mcny2016fall

6 Wash U STL (Orange)

7 Purdue (2)

8 Rensselaer (2)

9 IIT Stuart (1)

10 GeorgiaTech (1)

10 Cornell

12 Cal Poly San Luis

13 Schulich Investments

14 Columbia

15 CU Boulder (2)

16 trade4profit

17 IIT Wyatt's Torch

18 Sapienza University

19 Duke Team Fuqua

20 Walkaloosa

21 Rice

22 USC Trojan Capital Alpha

23 Caltech

24 Union College

25 Marquette (1)

26 U of Michigan Ross

27 UConn

28 Black& Gold Standard

28 cuhkbba

30 Rensselaer (1)

31 Purdue 2017

32 UWM-IMCP

33 CMU Tepper

34 Wash UST (LBlue)

35 Notre Dame Gold

36 mattisonasher

37 ISB India (1)

38 CU (3)

39 ACUityFund

40 Vanderbilt (1)

41 Temple University

42 U of Delaware

43 IE Green Partners

44 Columbia FE

45 Texas A&M

46 Vanderbilt (2)

47 ISB India (2)

48 UIC

49 UW CFRM

2016 Results:

First Place - Illinois Institute of Technology

Ileana Cavazos, Armin Niorumand, Jielin Chen, Mauro Hamz, Anton Vlaykov

Runner Up - University of Southern California

Brian Wang, Andrew Billings, Stanley Su, Salmaan Javed, Ryan McCarthy

2nd Runner Up - RPI

Yongqian Lu, Gowtham Kumar, Reddy Manda, Haochen Lui, Patrick Haughey, Jyothsna Harithsa

2016 Final Team Rankings:

IIT (A)

USC

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Washington University

Cal Tech

University of Arizona

IIT (B)

Denver Unversity

CMU

Webster University (2)

IE Business School

Wesleyan

CMU Undergrad

Temple University

University of Michgan

Vanderbilt University

UIC

Univeristy of Washington

UCLA

Cornell University

Webster University (1)

Syracuse University

Univeristy of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Metropolitan College New York

Chinese University Hong Kong

Marquette University

Union University

Rice University

Purdue University

Colorado University

Duke University

The following results are for the 2015 CQA Investment Challenge

First Place - Illinois Institute of Technology

Lisa Lee, Bingqing He Changjiang Bi, Hang Gong, Lin Zeng, Shailesh Kakkar

Runner Up - Rice University

2nd Runner Up - University of Washington

2015 Final Team Rankings:

1 Illinois Institute of Technology

2 Rice University

3 University of Washington

4 Duke University

5 York

6 University of Chicago

7 Temple University

8 Cal Tech

9 Cornell

10 Colorado

11 The Chinese University of Hong Kong

12 Purdue University

13 U of Wisc Mil

14 Vanderbilt University

15 UCLA - Anderson School

16 Carnegie Mellon

17 Syracuse

18 University of Denver

19 Metropolitan College of NY

20 Union

21 University of Michigan

22 University of Illinois - Chicago

23 USC

24 Dartmouth College

25 Santa Clara

26 Weslyan

27 Webster

28 University of Arizona

The following results are for the 2014 CQA Investment Challenge. Congratulations to the following schools:

First Place - University of Southern California
Simeon Lee, Joe Bailey, Dikshant Tahilramani, Daxiang Tian

Runner Up - Vanderbilt University
Michael Boone, Brennan Brown, Paul Gerwe, Christine Foster, Joshua Simmons

2nd Runner Up - University of Arizona
Laura Hobbs, Karmi Gutman, Joshua DiBiasi, Alexander Cohen, Juan Peraza

2014 Final Team Rankings:

1. University of Southern California
2. Vanderbilt University
3. University of Arizona
4. University of Washington
5. Dartmouth College
6. University of Chicago
7. Union College
8. Duke University
9. University of Denver
10. Whitman - Syracuse
11. Anderson School - UCLA
12. Williams College
13. Rice University
14. Purdue University
15. University of Illinois - Chicago
16. Illinois Institute of Technology
17. University of Delaware
18. Texas A&M University
19. Wesleyan
20. Ross School - University of Michigan
21. Carnegie Mellon
22. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
23. Temple University
24. Macalester College

The following results are for the inaugural 2013 CQA Investment Challenge.
Congratulations to the following schools:

First Place - Vanderbilt University
Kelly Smith, Chad Hooker, Zachary Kennedy, Asia Brumwell

Runner Up - Williams College
Yang Lu, Vu Le, Michael Flynn, Shiwen Chen

2nd Runner Up - Chinese University of Hong Kong
Members: Chan Ka Hoo, Yung Yi Tak, Chen Jiaqi, Leung Cheuk Wai

Youtube Video from CUHK describing their CQA Challenge experience

2013 Final Team Rankings:

1. Vanderbilt University
2. Williams College
3. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
4. Notre Dame
5. University of Chicago
6. Cornell
7. University of Denver
8. Bucknell
9. University of Delaware
10. Ross School - University of Michigan
11. Carnegie Mellon
12. Anderson School - UCLA
13. University of Washington
14. University of Illinois - Chicago
15. Wesleyan